For each connection you make, you may gain any skill, but cannot bring a skill above Level 3 using this rule nor may you take the Jack-of-all-Trades skill.'Īs written, there is no mention of any restriction on which skills can be chosen a Drifter could choose Leadership or Advocate, skills not included within the Drifter career. You may gain a maximum of two free skills from the connections rule, and each connection must be with a different Traveller. 'If an event can be linked between two Travellers in this way, then you both get one extra skill of your choice. of Core Rulebook 1 discusses 'The Connection Rule' the specifics of gaining skills are in the third paragraph: Which is meant to be correct? (This is not the same issue that's dealt with on the errata document on Google, where it refers to page 16.) In the second excerpt ' each' doesn't indicate any such differentiation. In the first excerpt ' otherwise' suggests one option or the other for the first term. In each term you spend in a career, pick one of these tables and roll 1D to see which skill you increase.'īold highlights are my emphasis. 'Each career has four or five types of skill table associated with it – Personal Development, Service Skills, Specialist Skills (divided into three sub-tables corresponding to assignments), Officer Skills and Advanced Education. While stated on page 16 (Skills and Training, para 1) 'If this is first term of Career, go through Basic Training, Otherwise, choose a skill table and roll' Problem: There is a contradiction in the character generation chapter of Core Rulebook 1. (Assuming first career, not a re-enlistment changing careers.) During a character's first career term, do they get a skill roll (on the career's tables) as well as the level-0 skills from basic training? The first is a contradiction of statements, the second two are a bit more. Page numbers referred to match those in the the PDF and hardcopy. Unsurprisingly, character generation was the first thing I read through in depth as I did a dummy run of rolling up a character. I've just put together some detail on some of the rules questions that I've come up with on my first look through the rules.

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